{"id":13738,"date":"2023-02-13T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2023-02-13T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:21:16","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-last-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-last-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Last King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his statue of King Alfonso IX of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Galicia\">Galicia<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingdom_of_Le%C3%B3n\" target=\"_blank\">Le\u00f3n<\/a> (1171-1230) sits in central Sarria. This well-loved king founded the University of Salamanca and convened the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cortes_of_Le%C3%B3n_of_1188\">Cortes of Le\u00f3n<\/a> in 1188, a parliament that had a wider representation of his people than any other European parliament at the time. He was also the last king of an independent Galicia and Le\u00f3n, as his son Ferdinand was already King of Castilla. With the accession of Ferdinand III, Castilla and Le\u00f3n were joined in a union that exists to this day. Galicia, by contrast, tried to maintain their independence, and managed to do so with some success for more than two centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-768x1028.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k-1148x1536.jpg 1148w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/14025234942_d6e3969ee0_k.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-castillo-de-sarracin\/28089786075_3e4a3b05dc_k\/\"><\/a><strong>Date:<\/strong> 27 April 2013<strong><br>Place:<\/strong> Sarria (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)<br><strong>Today started:<\/strong> Samos (Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/El_Camino_Frances_28m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-546x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-546x1024.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-80x150.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-768x1440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-533x999.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m-260x488.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/El_Camino_Frances_27m.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\" id=\"block-504ee084-3f25-44ca-a84e-cc2407034f76\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Camino-Map-Cathedral-Cities-1024x627.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This statue of King Alfonso IX of Galicia and Le\u00f3n (1171-1230) sits in central Sarria. This well-loved king founded the University of Salamanca and convened the Cortes of Le\u00f3n in 1188, a parliament that had a wider representation of his people than any other European parliament at the time. He was also the last king of an independent Galicia and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}